Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Dude don’t you live near him? How have you not have locked it up by now? Can’t you bake a mark smith style cookie or something?
Compass is in Chandler (Phoenix area). That's like a 90 minute drive from here.

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Not a bad comp, but Ty's a better distributor and has better handles.
From what I've seen, I like his aggression. We don't have really have a guy who kills opposing defenses with his ability to drive. Ayo did it, and Kofi gets a lot of fouls from his post presence, but having a guy who's aggressive enough to take guys off the bounce and get them in trouble defensively is a big deal IMO. Ty strikes me as a guy who can force a lot of action and cause some havoc with opposing defenses. LOVED watching Ayo put guys in foul trouble. Would love to see another player that has that mentality and can do it half as well or better.
 
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Do any of the coaches look for international players ir have a history recruiting international players? Antigua got us some great international players we would never usually get. International talent is such a big pool now, it'd be great to find some secretly talented players out there, in addition to a peoria/chicago/Illinois pipeline
 
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Do any of the coaches look for international players ir have a history recruiting international players? Antigua got us some great international players we would never usually get. International talent is such a big pool now, it'd be great to find some secretly talented players out there, in addition to a peoria/chicago/Illinois pipeline
Only one guy on our roster played overseas, and I believe he's the one one we've had on the roster with Underwood. All the rest may have grown up elsewhere, but we recruited them from US high schools.

To me, if you have to go overseas for players, then you aren't good enough at recruiting because, as is already seen, many great foreign players come here for high school, and of course there are more than enough US players. Land them.
 
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